NEWS CONFERENCE ON BUDGET 687

shall thereby become a part of said budget bill. " Now, I want to say
one other thing and I think this is most important. We all have a very
difficult job in government. And when I say we all, I mean the execu-
tive, and the legislative and the fourth estate, the press. Probably
your job is one of the most pressing because you have time limitations
and space limitations. But when you do err, such as was done here,
I think it is only fair and I think it is the responsibility of the press
to correct that error by just as much publicity, just as big a headline
on the correction, as you have given the public the impression the
wrong constitutional question was. To make myself a little more clear,
the public is undoubtedly going to be somewhat shaken in their con-
fidence as to the chief executive, and while I am a Democrat and not
averse to shaking a Republican political image, it's wrong to shake
the confidence of the Governor before the public with that type of a
headline; and while I am a Democrat, again I came here to ask the
press to do what they can to clarify this issue.

Governor: Mr. Lowe, let me express my appreciation for what you've
said and let me add just one thing. There seems to have been more
than the usual amount of this type of distortion occurring during the
past months. Just yesterday, a very fine delegate, Mr. Richard Rynd,
was assaulted in his character by representations and allusions and
innuendo, that led to the conclusion that he was operating his nursing
homes in such a fashion that the operation was a conflict of interest
with his State responsibilities. I happen to know Mr. Rynd personally.
He is a member of the opposition party, just as Mr. Lowe is, but I
cannot allow these inferences to go unchallenged There isn't any
doubt that Mr. Rynd did the State a public service by taking these
indigent cases in his nursing home. There is no doubt that more
money could have been made by taking solvent cases, and I'd just
like to say that this kind of thing really is getting out of hand and it
gives us all a great deal of concern.

Q. Governor, there is one section in the Attorney General's opinion
which is rather confusing. That deals with the tuition waiver pro-
gram. The opinion, as I read it, says that you don't have to include
the funds for that program in your budget, but nevertheless the State
colleges would be required to provide free tuition for the students who
plan to teach for two years after graduation. I'm just curious as to
how they would get this money if it's not authorized in the budget.

A. I don't want to answer what the Attorney General had in mind,
and questions about the interpretations of the opinion are best left
to him. But let me point out one thing that has been public knowl-